Your I Love Canadian Harness Racing Fan Club is pleased to announce the return of the Zoom Photography Challenge for the fourth consecutive year! We’ll have some new, exciting and inspiring themes along with some great prizes we’re looking forward to giving away, so get those smart phones and cameras out!

If you have an eye for photography that captures the Heart of Harness racing, the ‘I Love Canadian Harness Racing’ Fan Club wants to see your photos!

Zoom Challenges will run from April through September. There will be a theme for each monthly challenge and we invite amateur photographers to take and submit photos that reflect the theme.

To get things rolling for April, we’re kicking things off with a “Standardbreds In Action” theme. Take a photo of a Standardbred in action (galloping, racing, jogging, etc.) before April 21 and post it and tag it with #fanclub2016 on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram or Tumblr. By tagging the photo and including a caption/post that includes your name in it, you are entering the contest.

So get your smartphones or camera out, and get snappin! Also ensure that your tagged photos are publicly accessible in your profile settings!

The deadline for this month’s photo submissions is Thursday, April 21.

A committee will select a handful of the best entries, which will be included in a poll on SC’s website. Readers will then have the chance to vote for the photo they like the best.

The monthly winner will receive a great Fan Club Swag Prize package ($50 value) and the six monthly winners will be eligible to win a Grand Prize, which will include a $50 gift card to the racetrack of their choice and an enlargement of their winning photo framed or plaque mounted!

Contest Guidelines:

• Open to Fan Club members only. Not a member? Join HERE for free! (IMPORTANT: photo submissions entered by non fan club members will NOT be considered for the contest)

• Only amateur photographers may enter this contest.

• Photos should be taken during the contest period.

• Photos must be a minimum 150 dpi, however 300 dpi is preferred.

• Photos may not appear to be digitally altered.

• Upon submission, you are releasing your photographs to Standardbred Canada and we reserve the right to publish them on our website, Facebook page, Pinterest Page & in print if we so choose (due credit will be given)

• Please include your name in the filename of your photo. (caption /post for the April contest)

• For future months, when you submit your photo, please include your name, address, and details about the subject matter that you photographed, (any names, location) as well as the date that the photo was taken.

Here are the timelines for the first month’s contest:

• April 7 – Contest opens

• April 21 – Entry deadline & announce theme for next month

• April 25 – Announce contest finalists; voting opens

• April 28 – Deadline for voting

• May 1 – Reveal first winner